This is a test of cousin Steve.  Name the airplane Steve.

Check out Taren’s CBR600RR. There is only one way to get LE stickers and they come with great handling.

These used GSXR forks are 50 & 54mm od at the top & bottom 3-clams. The flash reflected in the DLC tubes. You can see the mark where the MC banjo bolt touched the tube. I’ll rebuild them as well as spring and valve them for you. That is worth $560. $1000 gets you the forks and the work.

I’ve been working on TZ250’s since 1992. You might think that by now I would not need the manual. I don’t, but why take a chance. Also notice the note book and pen.

Ever wonder why you should keep working hard no matter what? Tito Rabat had already wrapped up the Moto 2 championship before his epic race long battle with Thomas Luthi at Valencia who would end up 4th overall pretty much no matter what happened.

Rabat had the advantage in the race but Luthi could hang on and even pass, then run wide every few laps. The two of them checked out on the field. They were having a good time, pushing hard but never riding rough. Luthi gave it his last best shot at T-2 on the last lap but ran wide, Rabat stayed calm again and went back under him gaining a small gap. You all know what happened exiting the last turn. If Luthi had backed off just one tenth after his failed pass he would not have been in place to take the win.

My wife loves Thrift Stores, she is always bring home books she thinks I’ll like. When she showed me “The Encyclopedia of Motorcycles” I was not impressed by the cover photo.

When I bought Lindemann Engineering from Jim, RIP, I understood that I was gaining good will. I knew that there were thousands of LE stickers on bikes all over the place and that people would be calling me because of that.

This is just another example.

If you are making set up changes to your bike or riding changes to yourself without an on board lap timer you’re practicing religion not science.

Why did I change the title of my last post? After thinking about it more I came to the conclusion that it’s better to race than to not. There are a lot of reasons for a company to race and just as many, maybe more for them to not.

We need all the racers we can get and the factories too.

I agree that the only way to have good racing is to have many teams that have a real chance to win. But as a purist I also want the top level to be unrestricted. The world is not bound by my fantasies. It’s bound by economic realities.

How well is racing trickle down working right now? You can buy an electronics package that does more than the best systems of just a few years ago for a lot less and it comes with a really good motorcycle. Do we want more of that? More factories racing = more of that.

Heck, I’m not racing as fast a bike as I want to be as often as I want to be at the level I want to be racing at. I’ve changed my mind. I’m looking forward to seeing Suzuki racing again this weekend with Ducati, Honda and Yamaha. Next year Aprilia will join the mix. Maybe they will knock over some windmills.

Check out what MG has to say about this at: http://motorbikeroadracing.blogspot.com/

I was not kidding when I said you can have any color spring you want.